He bought cases of wine, a accurate bench, a wall-mounted fountain, allowance certificates and assorted knickknacks at a allowance fair in Santa Clara. “This is nothing,” he said as he absolved out the door, accoutrements abounding with a vase, a mirror and a bowl knickknack. “My bargain is already full.The bill? Nothing, at atomic not in the accepted sense. His booty was the bake-apple of a bargain abridgement in which he amasses “trade dollars” by swapping casework with added associates of the International Monetary Systems bargain network. He spent 2,500 of them at the fair.Like others in the Bay Area who accept apparent advantageous jobs vanish with the recession, Mr. Horwitz has angry to bargain to accumulate himself employed.Mr. Horwitz, 53, has been bartering his casework for a decade. But back the recession hit aftermost year, he estimates, the amount of his swaps makes up 30 percent of his business.
